Eric M. Glover is an Associate Professor Adjunct at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, where he practices dramaturgy and dramatic criticism. Glover’s first book, African American Perspectives in Musical Theater (Bloomsbury, 2023), is a case study, where he reads notable works by and about Black people—from Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins to Stew—closely. Additional criticism either appears or is forthcoming in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, programs, Theater History Studies 2024, Theater magazine, and elsewhere. Glover has served as a production dramaturg for the Binger Center for New Theatre, DGSD Season, Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk (Yale Repertory Theatre, University Theatre, New Haven, 2025), Yale Cabaret, and others. Glover has been awarded the inaugural DGSD Distinguished Teaching Prize for Assistant and Associate Professors Adjunct that recognizes excellence in mentoring at his rank.
Eric M. Glover
Associate Professor Adjunct of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
